Originally Posted by IBJoel

It was regrettably the opposite. We developed a Likes system for FlyerTalk, then the main VB team dveloped their own "PostThanks" independently, which became standard. The biggest issues for that here were that it keeps tracks of likes you've given and received across the site, but the biggest one was that when a post is liked, it creates a mini sub-post that takes up much more screen real estate. So it was an interface/UX issue. I personally think people overreacted a bit, but definitely understood why it was frustrating, especially coming from a system that doesn't do that.